"In practice, the economy doesn't grind to a halt for one day, " Mr. Shaw says.
"If I bring in 100 people that don't have an ax to grind, don't want any money, they're in 50 different states, they don't know each other, they're all massage therapists, they all have dates, they're at different spa resorts and they say this exact same thing happened, it's pretty hard to refute, " Okarocha said.
Buyers say the practice of using deposits for construction was highlighted in most sales contracts, but they didn't expect the projects to grind to a halt.
But on the current evidence don't expect America's recovery to grind to a halt.
"Over the winter I didn't enjoy the day-to-day grind of training, " she said.
With many traditional banks on the verge of collapse, hysterics on the right and left once again said that if the federal government didn't save them from their mistakes, the economy would grind to a halt thanks to a disappearance of credit.
But large parts of the U.S. economy would grind to a halt if these immigrants weren't there.
The grind-it-out Tebow Broncos weren't supposedly built for a free-for-all with New England, but here they were, easily pushing the ball downfield against a porous Patriots defense.
Money and savings aside, the importance of getting away from the daily grind, even for a couple days, doesn't fade away during tough economic times.
The guys that are in there every day, there's a grind to a season that a starting pitcher doesn't, I don't think, experience the way the everyday position players do playing 150, 160 games.
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We haven't set our stall out to play 4-4-2 and grind opposition teams down, we've played great football and entertained.
You take beans, grind them and use water to extract something that hopefully won't taste like Valvoline.
But watching the Greek crisis grind toward its umpteenth "crunch point", you can't help wondering why we hear so much about the country that's been desperately trying to win the markets' confidence for nearly two years, but so little about the country that, at the height of the crisis, basically told international investors to shut up and wait their turn.
"If wins don't come you've just got to keep pitching, you've got to grind it out, " Collins said.
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